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Excerpt from The Unpublished Poems of the Marquis De La Fare, 1644-1712: Edited From Ms. 15029 F. F. Of the Biblioth�que National
It is easily understood that such verses must have sounded as blaspheny to the austere Jansenist and the strict dogmatist of the times. They throw light on the role of the Soci�t� du Temple, for which they were written; upon the elaboration of doctrines more generally pre vailing a few decades later. La Fare's belief in natural religion reveals him to be a precursor of the deistic movement of the eighteenth century. Tolerance was a necessary corollary of his doc trine of the equality of all creeds the apologyof wealth, of later date, agrees fundamentally with the conception of Nature as a treasure house of pleasure prepared for man by a superior power. The strife of the various religious sects appears to him, as it does later to Voltaire, as a deplorable and meaningless rivalry, a fight for the supremacy of several errors, rather than for the supremacy of truth over falsehood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
